884 ANACARDIACEZ:. 
Dr. Linguist to the notice of European physicians (Practitioner, 
1882, 220); he recommends it for its extraordinary action in 
cases of hemorrhage from the uterus, lungs, or intestines. 
The fluid extract of the bark or rind may be given in the 
following manner :—Ext. Fl. Mangif. Ind., 10 grams; water, 
120 grams. Dose—One teaspoonful every hour or two, or 
the juice of the fresh bark may be administered with wis of 
egg or mucilage and a little opium. 
The wood is used largely for packing cases and tea chests, 
but it should be previously seasoned, otherwise the acid juice 
it naturally contains corrodes the lead. 
Description—The Mango is a large fleshy drupe, ovoid 
or kidney-shaped ; it varies much in size, ordinarily it is about 
as large as a goose’s egg, but in the Southern Concan and Goa 
there is a variety called Bispo or the Bishop, which attains the 
size of a child’s head. The pulp hasa terebinthinate sweet and 
acidulous taste. The nut varies in size, is somewhat reniform 
and laterally compressed; it consists of a woody endocarp 
covered with woody fibres,. ‘The seed has two distinct membra- 
nous envelopes, the outer one is of the nature of an aril and 
white, the inner or proper integument consists of two coats 
closely united, the outer white, the inner ofa dark red colour, 
The two cotyledons are spirally twisted, and lobed, their taste 
bitter and astringent. The gum occurs in irregular-shaped 
pieces, some of them stalactiform and shining; it is variable in 
colour and solubility, brittle, the fractured {surface dull, the 
odour faint and gummy. At the time of flowering a gum- 
resinous exudation occurs upon the tender portions of the plant. 
Chemical composttion.—Professor Lyon (1882) examined the 
dried unripe peeled frait, and found it to contain water 20°98, | 
watery extract 61°40, cellulose 4: 77, insoluble ash 1°43, soluble 
ash 1°91., alkalinity of soluble ash as potash ‘41, tartaric acid, 
with a trace of citric acid 7-04, remaining free acid as malic acid 
12°66, total free acid per 100 parts air dry substance 24°93. 
The orange colouring matter of the ripe mango is @ chloro- _ 
bo da —— readily soluble in ether, bisulphide of a 
